After the release of paranoid Limbo, which caused the public is an expected response in the segment platformer formed a new sub-genre. Describe it, you can: grim knows-understand-that's where the game should be run in darkness and flee from terrible monsters. Puzzles here - is a secondary matter, and at the forefront stands viscous atmosphere, and (optionally) an unambiguous philosophical subtext. A recent Oscura: Second Shadow trends of the newly formed genre should strictly - and this touches. Fans Limbo, pay attention!
How to play?
Oscura events occur, probably, in a small-town branch of Hell: Here, of course, dark circle unclear, but aggressive monsters everywhere and jagged spikes sticking gears. The protagonist - an unknown creature: either reduced man, or the embodiment of our body shell.However, its appearance is completely irrelevant. The main thing is that he has in his hand a bright flame.
Around, as already mentioned, can not see any DIG, and the light of your protege street lights lanterns - they also serve as points of preservation. Emerges an interesting subtext: your character is not just some sort of doll with a fire in his hand, but a real light-bearer, almost small Prometheus. And, accordingly, its path, which runs through some homogeneous terrain - a way of fighting against the darkness, the path of the educator. In general, the second floor there is clearly not for show, but its interpretation is a matter of your own personal perception.
It is not surprising that our little man all the way. For example, the unit of the landscape - the terms of cliffs and valleys. By levels scattered terrible gear drives, such as those that are used in circular saws. And sometimes suddenly jumps out of the bushes any ferocious beast. And they are all very mysterious species, and the most intuitive of this pantheon of monsters - erectus deer with red eyes.
All this pandemonium with saws, monsters and falling platforms is in constant motion. You have to do not so much sleight of hand (although it, too), as the ability to think quickly. Jump onto the ledge elusive, gallop away from a huge enemy, deftly land at a makeshift booth spinning ferris wheel and a few seconds to miss the looming toothed saw. And all this - for some few minutes.
Of course, the method decribed extremely difficult, and very few people on the first try fails. You will often die, err, not jump back to repeatedly get on the horn once ugly mug and leave the body of the protagonist on rotating tines infernal mechanisms. Fortunately, there is a small indulgence: it is possible to slow down time. Brought together a number of special crystals, you fill the hourglass icon - that it displays how long you will be able to rule over time. Function, of course, useful, and helps a lot. Especially in those moments when everything must be done to speed, and damned flying saw is about to catch up with your frail little body.
How it looks?
Looks Oscura: Second Shadow, no doubt, very impressive. Deliberately somber style, diluted with a few bright colors - white, blue and orange - creates a surprisingly powerful, literally paranoid picture. In the integrity of the local Hell begin to believe, as once believed in the pre-dawn landscapes Limbo - levels of graphics performance here if not higher, it is clearly at a similar level.
Results of
Oscura: Second Shadow - great platformer. And even more: it has all the makings to become a hit. From dense rhythm: steps (ideally) are passed in a couple of minutes, and it is - an endless series of jumps, pause time and millimeter deviations from monsters and traps.Ending with an incredible picture, and the overall message the broadcast developers: light here disperses the darkness, and the same man - a sort of a Prometheus carrying fire somewhere in the bowels of the black kingdom. Inflated complexity may scare someone, and, but, really, do not despair. Kazualok in the App Store and Google Play, and so lacking, even as there will be something for people who are ready to take the hardest challenge.
Pluses:
- model and accurately built platformer: have a lot of jump, run and die;
- spectacular graphics, where out of the blue, orange and black colors vypletayut most powerful image;
- interesting mechanic with time dilation.
Disadvantages:
- Difficulty: dislodge the maximum number of stars is very difficult, and the first time and it is impossible;
- can podnadoest: all game announces itself in the first ten minutes, and then will not be surprises.
